PHOTO: Nancy Hamilton 1926

SABBATICAL broken... I have a wedding to go in Monterey, California to this weekend and that's not going to work well with my plans to do some recording. So, I'll have to postpone the plan. AND I was really itching to share this photo.

I was being bad on my sabbatical and read Gary Peare's information about a search engine that would look for least likely items: www.bananaslug.com and came up with this absolutely glorious picture of Nancy Hamilton dated 9/9/1926. This photo surely looks like a bari to me and could put the whole Favilla vs. Godfrey question on the hotseat.

Here's another FANTASTIC PHOTO found on SHORPY

http://www.shorpy.com/node/4249

Sleipniruke || Essai Favilla Baryton B2

Favilla: such a warm sound... Pierre of UkeAttitude inquired about the tune and the response was, "It's just an 'improvisation', a variation on a simple result of agreement." Interesting way to put it or an odd Google translation? Very nice improvisation.

KDUS || Song of Old Hawaii || Favilla Baritone

The Night Owls || Taunton Ukulele

BEATLES || What You're Doing || Leonard